If he had been generous how wonderful it would be for her to help the man to whom nothing was too much to give her.

The fact that her brother had cabled strengthened the belief that he had hastened to come to her rescue.

She opened the cable and read it.

Then she fell back on the pillow with a low, faint moan.
When, hours later, O'Connell returned from a vain search for work he found her senseless, with the cable in her fingers.

He tried to recover her without success.